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Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language
Ben Collins writes "Prothon is a new industrial-strength, interpreted, prototype-based, object-oriented language that gets rid of classes altogether in the way that the Self language does. It uses the sensible, practical syntax and add-on C module scheme from Python. This major prototype improvement over Python plus many other general improvements make for a clean new revolutionary breakthrough in language development. Prothon is simple to use and yet offers the combined power of Python and Self. Check out the first public pre-alpha release at prothon.org."
It slices! It dices! It's object-orientated, and weblified with an eye toward enterprise strategeries! It will orally gratify you while you cruise down the freeway in your Camaro!
Seriously, is there a real need for another do-it-all, whizbang language? This seems like a solution to a non-problem, with feature that address non-deficiencies.
Errr , have you ever use EITHER language?? SQL is a declarative set driven language and works in a COMPLETELY
different way to COBOL which is procedural. I think you need to go back and re-take compsci 101!
The problem is that while tabs can be size-adjusted, the rest of the letters can't be. Thus, although all your tabs expand and contract, the letters that you're indenting against don't, and the formatting looks gradually crazier.
I'm sure you're worked with small tabs (for example 4-space), and then seen your code in a "normal" editor or printout (8-space) -- the result looks just crazy.
-Billy